This toggle is annoying because what was once 1 press to turn on BT is now 2. It gets me every day.

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5 points

Wut. Why would they bother when your cellular connection is constantly pinging all towers to literally triangulate your location? Why do something much more complicated to get data they already have?

The real answer is they are a multi billion dollar company with telemetry. Obviously, the vast majority of people never turn off WiFi or Bluetooth. Most people want quick access to connect to a WiFi network or Bluetooth device, not to toggle either off.

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I believe that Wi-Fi points are more accurate than towers especially when they’re sharing the information with indoor retailers

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It’s just a usability improvement. Virtually nobody turns off Bluetooth.

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9 points

Keep saying it. It’ll be true eventually.

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2 points

Damn, somehow this place is more toxic than Reddit used to be.

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What

I have literally never turned it on

It wastes battery and offers literally no benefit whatsoever

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Would you shut up already?

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Bluetooth give a lot more information about your surrounding (what device your phone detect or connect, for how much time, distance from objects, etc.), not only from your phone alone, but from other people phones who have bluetooth on and e.g. never disable any tracking from google services too. And the Mac address for bluetooth never change, so any device (and tracking company) will know you is forever you. Bluetooth is a privacy nightmare, and this is totally a dark pattern. People not knowing what they’re doing is of course a thing, but it seems just a usual bad practice by google, who like to manipulate especially not tech-savvy people

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